Putin warns the West against sending troops to Ukraine: “We have weapons that can also hit targets in their territories”

The Russian president Vladimir Putin warned Thursday that the consequences of deploying allied troops to Ukraine would be “tragic” and stressed that Western powers must understand that Moscow “It also has weapons that can hit targets in its territories.”

“They began to talk about the possibility of sending NATO military contingents to Ukraine, but let’s remember the fate of those who once sent troops to the territory of our country, but now the consequences for any interventionists They will be much more tragic” the president warned in his state of the nation address, two weeks before the presidential election.

In this sense, Putin stressed that Western powers must understand that Russia “It also has weapons that can hit targets in its territories.” And he warned: “Everything they invent right now, with which they terrorize the world, all this constitutes a real threat of a conflict in which nuclear weapons are usedwhich means the destruction of civilization.”

Putin also accused the West of forgetting what war is and causing “conflicts in Ukraine, the Middle East and other regions of the world.”

“And they continue to lie. Now, without any shame, they say that Russia intends to attack Europe. But we know full well that this is simply nonsense,” he said.

The Russian president assured that the West is trying to induce the Russian Federation to make the same mistake as the Soviet Union, involving itself in an arms race, to which the USSR dedicated 13% of its gross domestic product, while Moscow will allocate 6%. defense.2024.

In this regard, he emphasized that this “trick” will not be successful, as Moscow intends to develop the military-technical complex to strengthen the industrial, technological and scientific potential of the country.

Putin also called US accusations that Russia is preparing to deploy nuclear weapons into the cosmos “baseless.” However, he stressed that Russian strategic nuclear forces are “in full combat readiness.”

“Without a sovereign and strong Russia, a strong world order will not be possible,” he said.